Energy Head Pledges Reforms
On Issue of Racial Profiling

By

John J. Fialka Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 20, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, noting a serious morale problem among Asian-American employees in the wake of the recent spy investigation, promised a series of reforms, including a "stand-down" so Energy Department workers can consider ways to stop "racial profiling."

Mr. Richardson also conceded that since he fired Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born engineer, for violating security rules at Los Alamos National Laboratory, "we're not having as much success in recruiting top-flight...